international date line

[hiflier]

Apart from across the antarctic continent, does the international date line (NOT the 180th line of latitude) pass through any land territory anywhere at all?

[dzug2]

Don't think so - it deliberately goes round any land - inhabited land at least

[gen2]

Longitude surely!

No, that is why the international dateline doesn't follow the 180th line of longitde - It wouldn't be workable if different parts of the same country were on different days!

[Postdog]

It bends around where Islands get in the way. Obviously in the Pacific somewhere.

[HowardKennitby]

I don't think it does. Not on the old map I have but I seem to recall something happened recently about this.

[DTCwordfan]

there's a great trivial pursuits question

(i) most northerly USA state - Alaska
(ii) most southerly, Hawaii
(iii) most westerly, Alaska
(iv) most easterly, Alaska.....

why

[DTCwordfan]

the answer being that part of the Alaskan Aleutian Islands cross the 180 degrees longitude (not the the Int'l date line though) into the Eastern Hemisphere.....

[mibn2cweus]

http://upload.wikimed...ational_Date_Line.png